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Replication Files for: How Political Contestation over Judicial Nominations Polarizes Americans' Attitudes toward the Supreme Court

Jon C. Rogowski (rogowski@fas.harvard.edu) and Andrew R. Stone (arstone@g.harvard.edu)
Harvard University 

This version: May 2019, v. 1.0

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This repository contains the data and code necessary to replicate the analyses in the manuscript. 

The following files are necessary to replicate the analyses in the paper. 

*** Figures 1, 2 and 3 ***

conjoint_data.tab (download as .RData file)
replication-file.R

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The following variables are used in the analyses found in the paper.

politicized: Indicator of whether respondent received elite rhetoric statements or not.
treat_age: Indicator of which age attribute the nominee profile contained.
treat_gender: Indicator of which gender attribute the nominee profile contained.
treat_race: Indicator of which race attribute the nominee profile contained.
treat_lawS: Indicator of which law school attended attribute the nominee profile contained.
treat_pAbortion: Indicator of which abortion view attribute the nominee profile contained.
treat_currentP: Indicator of which current position attribute the nominee profile contained.
pid3a: Respondent partisan identification.
caseid: Respondent ID. 
weight: Post-stratification survey weights.
trust: Evaluation of trust in nominee's impartiality.
support: Evaluation of nominee support.
legit.additive: Additive legitimacy index.